August 7, 2007
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Zaca Fire visuals
Friends have been turning me on to Zaca Fire perimeter pictures. Here’s one: GeoMac is another. This too. That’s in additon to news such as this and this and this. Ray Ford at the Independent added this, with lots of maps and detailed coverage. Continue reading
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Zaca fire continues
Ray Ford has an excellent piece in the Independent on the Zaca Fire. The good news: With today’s morning fog — almost a misty drizzle — Paradise, Rosario Park and Camino Cielo residents can rest assured that the danger is over for them. The bad news: By day’s end the fire had crossed… Continue reading
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There has to be a better way
In the last two weeks we’ve had three unpleasant car rental experiences, each of which is an angle on what’s been screwed up for way to long with that whole category. Read more about it at the ProjectVRM blog. Continue reading
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Laugh tracking
rec.humor.funny is 20 years old today. Brad Templeton calls it the world’s oldest blog. My own vote goes to Poor Richard’s Almanack, which did for print what blogs did for pixels. Come to think of it, PRA could be funny too. Continue reading
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Back to natures
Living in coastal California can dull one’s Eastern edge, forged in the heat of summer, sharpened by abrasive seasons, the recurrent swelters and chills of true summers and winters. I’ve always been, as my old business partner David Hodskins correctly put it, comfort-imperative. Maybe that’s one reason I stayed so long on the California coast… Continue reading